And they couldn't put that message on the bins, what with the obvious Christian message ("Christ."). Come on now.

Now waiting for you to say you were being sarcastic so I can feel like a jerk for spelling this out for you.

But on the bright side: everyone can unite in their hatred for it!

In person, it's not so bad. It conveys the season, "adds to the feel", and has good placement.

If not the Nativity, then the crucifixion. For sure.

If I had time to be irritated about things like this, I'd be irritated that because of some misplaced anti-religious outrage Sea-Tac can't put on some good old-fashioned pagan nature-worship in the winter to take some of the sting out of being stuck in the lamest airport in the country.

Don't get me wrong, I hate religion as much as the next guy. Probably more than him. So rather than get angry over "christmas" decorations, I reject the premise that any religion can arbitrarily monopolize an entire division of the plant kingdom. Until Sea-Tac starts putting up actual religious icons - crosses, stars of David, whatever the hell it is that Muslims worship, everyone should shut it.

And if you don't like coniferous trees, you should move to Kenya.

an aside - i read on michelle malkin's blog today, there's a fucking war on THANKSGIVING now. it's impossible to keep up with these people.

And no, those don't look anything like Christmas Trees you jackass.

As a Jew I demand a Menorah in the Airport. Judaism is the world's only true religion of righteousness. Israel has no Christmas trees in the El-Al terminal. That's because Christmas trees are the symbol of oppression.

Just sayin.

Our founding fathers to whom we attribute everything except our credit card excess and anal warts were mainly Christian though they did not have vast airports screaming for decoration in the deep, dark dead of a 1776 winter.

They could no more have predicted this idiotic contretemps than they could have described a Thompson machine gun. Yet we assume we know what they would have wanted. Not healthy evergreens but pale Arctic tree death.

Everyone has holiday belief choices - accept or ignore - there is so much more to life than screaming about how much red and green offend you. Sip a little wassail - better than Valium - a choice which both Doc Holliday and Billie Holiday could embrace. Now those are holidays worth celebrating.

Until there is not on Christimas Tree on city property, this war on Christmas must continue. Judaism is a religion of peace of righteousness. That's why there should be public Menorahs and not Christimas trees during December.